A Twenty-Five Year Retrospective

Schedule

Sat Jun 10 2023 at 05:00 pm

Location

Second Presbyterian Church | Charleston, SC

The Charleston Gospel Choir is pleased to present A 25-Year Retrospective as part of the 2023 Piccolo Spoleto Festival under the musical direction of guest conductor Dr. Tony McNeill.
Through song and narration provided by Dr. Karen Chandler, the Choir’s long-time storyteller and recently retired College of Charleston Professor Emerita, the performance will showcase the energy and joy of Charleston’s very own internationally acclaimed Choir has brought to the Holy City for the past 25 years. Since its inception in 1998-99, the Charleston Gospel Choir celebrates and performs gospel, spirituals, and sacred music events including Palm Sunday performances, Gospel Christmas, Piccolo Spoleto, and regional events throughout the Southeast with numerous international engagements including Paris, London, Rome, Prague and Ghana, West Africa.
A bold idea planted by long-time arts patron Wally Seinsheimer, Sr., Darryl Edwards, then CEO of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra, along with the Choir’s seminal first artistic director Vivian E. Jones, and Choir founder Lee Pringle produced the Symphony’s holiday season opener―Gospel Christmas―in 1999 for a 12-year run that forever changed Charleston’s choral landscape. Pringle would rebrand the CSO Gospel Choir into the Charleston Gospel Choir and continued its legacy with the Charleston Spiritual Ensemble in 2007, and most recently in 2013 with the nationally recognized Colour of Music Festival, the country’s largest Black classical music organization.
Selections will span traditional gospel gems to toe-tapping contemporary works including Grammy Award-winner Aretha Franklin’s How I Got Over along with Order My Steps in Your Words and Donny Hathaway’s To Be Young, Gifted and Black and many others the Choir has become known for.
Tickets and Information
Charleston Gospel Choir | A 25-Year Retrospective
Piccolo Spoleto Festival
Saturday, June 10, 2023 • 5 p.m.
Second Presbyterian Church, 342 Meeting Street, Charleston SC 29403
General Admission Tickets
$25 adults; $12 children/students with ID
www.charlestongospelchoir.org/buy-tickets/ or (866) 811-4111
or at door (cash or check only) up to one half hour before event

Where is it happening?

Second Presbyterian Church, 342 Meeting St,Charleston,SC,United States

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